sarah starkweather   curriculum vitae

affiliation

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, National University of Singapore.

publications

Sarah Starkweather. 2009. My children, myself: speaking for young citizens abroad. Children's Geographies 7(1), forthcoming.

Sarah Starkweather. 2007. Gender, perceptions of safety and strategic responses among Ohio university students. Gender, Place and Culture 14(3), 355-370. [Click here for PDF version]
(Author Posting. (c) Taylor & Francis, 2007. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Taylor & Francis for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Gender, Place & Culture, Volume 14 Issue 3, June 2007.)

Sarah Starkweather, Adrienne Low and Kenneth Pearlman. 2004. Managing growth: recent legal literature. Journal of Planning Literature 18(3), 267-308.

Sarah Starkweather. 2002. Review of Mona Domosh and Joni Seager, 2001: Putting Women in Place: Feminist Geographers Make Sense of the World. Journal of Planning Literature 16(3), 379.

Larry S.Bourne, Sarah Starkweather and Ranu Basu. 2000. People and places: a portrait of the evolving social character of the Greater Toronto Region. Report for the Neptis Foundation, Portrait of a Region project.

Larry S. Bourne and Sarah Starkweather. 1999. Social polarization and income inequalities in Toronto: are they increasing? A graphical and statistical report. Report for the City of Toronto.

grants and fellowships

2008-2009. Postdoctoral fellowship (Department of Geography). Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, National University of Singapore.

2006-2007. Project for Interdisciplinary Pedagogy Teaching Fellowship. Program in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington - Bothell.

2006. Institute on the Public Humanities Fellowship. Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington. [Award declined.]

2006. Chester Fritz Fellowship for International Study and Exchange. Graduate School, University of Washington.

2005. Howard Martin grant in support of research. Department of Geography, University of Washington.

2004-5 and 2005-6. Foreign Language and Area Studies Academic Year Fellowship. U.S. Department of Education (through the Canada Studies Center at the University of Washington).

2004 and 2005. Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Fellowship. U.S. Department of Education (through the Canada Studies Center at the University of Washington).

2003. Gerlach Recruitment Fellowship. Department of Geography, University of Washington.

2000. University Fellowship. School of Graduate Studies, The Ohio State University.

other awards and honors

2003. Master's Paper Award. Qualitative Research Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers. Paper title: Students on perceptions of safety and the use of space: implications for university policy.

2002. Honorable mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Competition.

2002. Jerrold R. Voss Scholarship. Program in City & Regional Planning, The Ohio State University.

2002. Outstanding Planning Student Award. American Institute of Certified Planners and Program in City & Regional Planning, The Ohio State University.

2001 and 2002. Faculty Prize for Academic Merit. Program in City & Regional Planning, The Ohio State University.

2001. Outstanding First Year Graduate Student Award. Program in City & Regional Planning, The Ohio State University.

2001. Israel Stollman Award. Program in City & Regional Planning, The Ohio State University.

2001. Best Graduate Paper. Program in City & Regional Planning, The Ohio State University. Paper title: Housing needs of victims of domestic violence in Marysville and Union County, Ohio.

2000. Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award (for best undergraduate thesis). Department of Geography, University of Toronto.

1996-2000. Howard Ferguson Provincial Scholarship. University College, University of Toronto.

professional experience : teaching

06/2007 to 06/2008. Predoctoral Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington - Bothell. Courses: Topics in Geography: The Seattle Region (BIS314), Exploring American Culture: Race, Ethnicity and Immigration (BIS 367), The City in American Culture (BIS 423).

09/2006 to 06/2007. Predoctoral Teaching Fellow, Program for Interdisciplinary Pedagogy, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington - Bothell. Courses: Topics in Geography: Gender and Spaces from the Nation to the Body (BIS 314), Topics in Geography: Globalization, Migration and Citizenship (BIS 314), Exploring American Culture: Race, Ethnicity and Immigration (BIS 367).

09/2005 to 12/2006 and 06/2008 to 07/2008. Instructor, Department of Geography, University of Washington. Courses: Immigrant America (GEOG 310), Field Fesearch: The Seattle Region (GEOG490).

01/2003 to 06/2006. Tutor, Geography & Anthropology Writing Center, University of Washington.

01/2003 to 06/2004. Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Washington. Courses: Introduction to Human Geography (GEOG 100), U.S. Population Diversity (GEOG 245), Geography of Cities (GEOG 277), Introduction to Geographic Research (GEOG 326).

09/2001 to 06/2002. Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University. Courses: World Regional Geography (GEOG 200), Honors World Regional Geography (GEOG 200H).

1999 and 2000 (summers). Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Toronto. Course: Geographic Information and Mapping I (GEOG 272).

professional experience : research assistance

09/2002 to 09/2003. Research Assistant to Kim England, Department of Geography, University of Washington. Project title: Women in the Canadian banking industry.

06/2002 to 08/2002. Research Assistant to Eugene McCann, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University. Project title: Capital-driven and public participation models of urban governance.

06/1999 to 07/2000. Research Assistant to Larry S. Bourne, Department of Geography, University of Toronto. Project title: The evolving social structure of the Toronto region.

05/1999 to 10/1999. Research Assistant to Larry S. Bourne, Department of Geography, University of Toronto. Project title: Social polarization and income inequalities in Toronto.

05/1998 to 08/1999. Research Assistant to Kim England, Department of Geography, University of Toronto. Project title: Gender and employment in the Canadian urban system.

invited talks

2008. American extraterritorial citizenship in theory and practice. Department of Geography, West Chester University, February.

2008. Defining extraterritorial citizenship: the case of Americans living abroad. Department of Geosciences, Georgia State University, January.

conference participation : papers presented

2008. The persistence of paper: voting from abroad in the 'digital age.' Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts. April.

2007. Census, representation and the limits of governance: on (not) counting Americans living abroad. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting. Long Beach, California. October.

2007. The Project for Interdisciplinary Pedagogy: preparing graduate students for interdisciplinary careers. Association for Integrative Studies Annual Meeting. Tempe, Arizona. September.

2007. Enumer-nation: Census and the technical limits of the "imagined community." Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, University of Washington (conference theme: Imagination: Pubilc or Private?). Seattle, Washington. May.

2007. Unknown and unknowable: the politics of counting Americans abroad. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. San Francisco, California. April.

2006. Globalizing electoral geographies: getting out the expat vote. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Chicago, Illinois. March.

2004. The Association of Americans Resident Overseas (AARO): defining extraterritorial citizenship. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. March.

2003. Gender in talk of safety: three aspects of control. Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Victoria, British Columbia. June.

2003. What can a (feminist) geographer do with mirrors? Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana. March.

2002. Students on perceptions of safety and the use of space: implications for university policy. International Geographical Union, Placing Gender / Making Policy conference. Toronto, Ontario. June.

2002. Toronto's Olympic bid campaign: 'world city' imagery at overlapping scales. Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Toronto, Ontario. May.

2002. Perceptions of safety and women's rights to space: constraints and strategies. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, California. March.

2000. With Larry S. Bourne. On social polarization and income inequalities: revisiting the debate. Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. St. Catharines, Ontario. June. (Presented by Larry S. Bourne.)

conference participation : sessions organized

2004. Organizer and chair of Visions of citizenship. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. March.

2004. Organizer and chair of Get a job! Options, strategies, and resources for finding a job in academia. (Sponsored by the Graduate Student Affinity Group.) Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. March.

2003. Organizer and chair of The construction of gendered selves in public and private spaces. (Sponsored by the Geographic Perspectives on Women Specialty Group.) Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana. March.

2003. Organizer of Gender and nature: conservation, consumption and commodity chains. (Sponsored by the Geographic Perspectives on Women Specialty Group.) Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana. March.

2003. Co-organizer (with Richard Heyman) of Get a job! Options, strategies, and resources for finding a job in academia. (Sponsored by the Graduate Student Affinity Group.) Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana. March.

2003. Co-organizer (with Matthew Sothern) of Labor organizing in the academic workplace: speaking from experience . (Sponsored by the Graduate Student Affinity Group and the Socialist Geography Specialty Group.) Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana. March.

other presentations

2007. Facilitator (with Colin Danby) of Workshop on Quantitative and Qualitative Pedagogies. Project for Interdisciplinary Pedagogy, University of Washington - Bothell.

2007. Panelist for Interacting on Interdisciplinarity: Opportunities and Successes. Graduate and Professional Education Week, Graduate School, University of Washington.

professional and community service

2006 to 2007. End to Capital Punishment Movement / Ensemble Contre la Peine de Mort. Document translation (French-to-English).

01/2004 to 05/2005. Education Access Network. Assisting in the development of low-cost LSAT and GRE preparation courses.

2003-2004. Senator representing the Department of Geography, Graduate and Professional Student Senate, University of Washington.

2003-2004. Vice-Chair, Graduate Student Affinity Group, Association of American Geographers.

2003. Graduate Student Orientation Co-ordinator, Department of Geography, University of Washington.

2002-2003. Secretary-Treasurer, Graduate Student Affinity Group, Association of American Geographers.

memberships

Association of American Geographers

Association of Pacific Coast Geographers

Association for Integrative Studies